[Preface / Albert Camus] -- Myth of Sisyphus -- Absurd reasoning : Absurdity and suicide ; Absurd walls ; Philosophical suicide ; Absurd freedom -- Absurd man : Don Juanism ; Drama ; Conquest -- Absurd creation : Philosophy and fiction ; Kirilov ; Ephemeral creation -- Myth of Sisyphus -- Appendix : Hope and the absurd in the work of Franz Kafka -- Summer in Algiers -- Minotaur, or the stop in Oran -- Helen's exile -- Return to Tipasa -- Artist and his time